Recent sightings (through Dec. 2) as reported to Mass Audubon.
A Townsend’s solitaire was found in Provincetown.
A tufted duck was at Seymour Pond in Brewster among 1,100 greater and a few lesser scaup.
At least two cave swallows were at Nauset Beach in Orleans.
Birds at Race Point in Provincetown included a Pacific loon, a little gull, a king eider, 8,000 black scoters, 1,200 red-breasted mergansers, a purple sandpiper, a parasitic jaeger, 350 razorbills, 6 dovekies, 2 common murres, 200 black-legged kittiwakes, 800 Bonaparte’s gulls, 5 Iceland gulls, and 70 snow buntings.
Other sightings around the Cape included a yellow-bellied flycatcher in Falmouth, 90 tree swallows in Mashpee, 3 barn swallows at Dowse’s Beach in Osterville, a continuing Eurasian wigeon in Sandwich plus another in Wellfleet, 2 Western willets in Chatham, 4 dovekies in Wellfleet Harbor and a late osprey elsewhere in Wellfleet, and a prairie warbler on Commercial Street in Provincetown.
If you have questions about these sightings, or want to report a sighting, call the Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary at 508-349-2615 or send e-mail to cape.sightings@massaudubon.org.